Sheila’s Guide
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Understanding tourism, travel, and social media with Sheila Scarborough, co-founder of Tourism Currents.
Travel Post Friday: telling a building’s story
Fair warning - it is difficult to take a "quick" trip to the historic town of Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, because there is a lot to see and do. Lewis and Clark came through here, John Brown's unsuccessful attempt to arm slaves to revolt happened here, a now-closed...
Get more out of your 24 hours – 4 steps to more content in less time
We are all trying to figure out how to get things done as efficiently as possible. The important thing to remember about publishing online and on social media is that it is a never-ending, greedy maw of demand ... if you want to stay competitive and visible. That is...
Walk away with a content plan you’ll actually use
Sometimes the best way to figure out how to teach someone to do something is to struggle to do it yourself. At Tourism Currents, we've hammered away for FOREVER about the importance of having some sort of content plan or editorial calendar for your destination...
You have to answer the WIIFM question about social media – What’s In It For Me?
While tidying up my living room, I stumbled across a book that I contributed to back in 2009 ... The Age of Conversation 2: Why Don't They Get It? It was a compilation of thoughts from 239 authors from 15 nations, edited by Drew McLellan and Gavin Heaton, about social...
Avoiding blogger burnout, particularly in tourism
Is the grind getting to you? Has the blogging inspiration muse deserted you? Are you, like me, trying to figure out how to avoid blogger burnout? Here’s a summary of my presentation on this topic for the Building Community Midwest Travel Bloggers conference ... the...
Put a touchscreen anywhere – what could you do with it?
While exploring at the SXSW (South by Southwest) Interactive festival, I spent time with small town revitalization expert Becky McCray in a big Sony product demonstration temporary building. There were robot puppies, which were quite the people magnet ... ... and...
I love my blog
This is just a post to say how much I love online publishing. I don't have to ask anyone's permission to publish this blog post. I am not including an image in this post, although that has become key to a post's appeal. I do not have a profound message to deliver in...
Do we underestimate the culture change needed for success?
I am trying to get more comfortable with the how-to of business sales, so I subscribe to Anthony Iannarino's Sales Blog newsletter. I met him years ago at a conference when he was just starting his blog, and I appreciate his approach to salesmanship, which is less...
How to automate your network. Or not.
Someone asked me recently about different aspects of automating one's online presence....automating content marketing, of course, but also "automating my network." Specifically, this person asked: "What do you do to automate those [social media] post shares; guessing...
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